Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.

Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires converting luxuries into necessities but it only intensifies mans inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Love is a mutual self giving which ends in self recovery.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life there can be no Easter Sunday.

In this sublime hour therefore He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross and every word He says to them is set down for the purpose of an eternal publication and an undying consolation.

There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say Good morning God and the other is to say Good God morning

One function of the angels is illumination and the other function is that of being a guardian.

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.